Join me while I paint a peacock feather today! || The Social Easel

Hey guys, it's Christie with The Social Easel, and today I'm going to show you how to paint this peacock feather. So I'm going to get you pulled up really quick. All right, so if you know anybody that would want to paint or watch me paint this peacock feather, if you want to let them know we're going live, I would much appreciate it right now. And just pass that on to your friends. This was one of my first paintings— if I have anything to prop that up on— that I taught at my local paint nights when I started my business 6 years ago. So I haven't painted it in a really long time, but I love this painting and it's super fun, so I'm gonna show it to you guys today. So for those of you that struggle with maybe being a little heavy-handed, this will be a good one for you to practice on because we're going to be using some skinny round brushes today. So I'm just going to start off with— I can't quit yawning, you guys. I'm tired. I'm going to start with loading up some paint. Hey Debbie. Hey Lisa. Linda. Alright, so I've got some navy This is— I don't even know if they make this anymore. This is an older bottle of paint, but it's Peacock Blue from Craft Smart. I love this color. It's really, really bright. You see how bright blue that is? So I've got a bright blue and a navy, and the first thing we're gonna do is super simple. We're just gonna paint the background. It'd help if I'd bring my water brushes— my water brushes? My paintbrushes over here. How many of you have gotten your free video series? Everyone get video number 1 and 2? If you haven't, I'll post that in the links too, but you can sign up for my free video series. Those come straight to your email inbox. So you want to make sure you get those. And if you want the, the link for it, if you just comment links, then you'll get a message with it. I'll post it in here afterwards too. So let me move my water cup out of the way. So all I'm doing right now is loading up and I'm getting a little bit of the bright blue and a little bit of the navy. See how much paint I have on there? A lot. And I'm doing it on an 11 by 14 today. My original was on a 16 by 20. But I get both colors on my brush, I load it up, and I'm just making these messy brushstrokes back and forth. Nothing hard about this at all. Anyone can do this. So my goal is to teach you simple techniques that you can do at home. So if you've always wanted to paint and you haven't picked up a paintbrush yet, hopefully this will give you the courage to do so. Just learn some basics to get you going. Once you get started, trust me, it becomes a little addictive, and then you're not going to want to stop. So we just have to get you started. How many of you out there currently are painters or have started trying to paint? Maybe you're a complete newbie, maybe you've been doing it a while. Let me know what, what your experience is, and let me know if you've never painted before, and if you haven't, why? What's stopping you from trying? Now when I paint, I tend to be messy. I usually end up with paint all over my hands. Cory begs me not to wear nice clothes while I'm doing it. Even if I have an apron on, I can get it everywhere. All right, I'm gonna read some of your, some of your responses really quick because I want to let this dry for a little bit. Hello from North Carolina, Betty and Sherry. Oh, awesome, Janice! Janice is in my Inner Tribe and she just started teaching paint nights. So it's so awesome. We've had so many success stories inside the tribe. So if you're one of those people who hasn't done it yet, meaning painting, just go ahead and try. The worst that's gonna happen is you're not gonna love the first thing you do and you just keep practicing and keep going. And Janice is a perfect example of someone who, I don't know why she thought she didn't have any creative talent because she has a ton, but she let that fear stop her from painting and she joined the tribe and she was hesitant at first. And I think she may have even not joined the first time she heard about it, but joined the second time. And here we are. I think, Janice, you can correct me if, if I'm wrong, but I believe after about 6 months of being in Inside My Tribe, she is now actually teaching her own paint classes and making money and bringing money in for her family. So it's just awesome. You have no idea what God has in store for you. I certainly didn't. I had no idea he had this in store for me, but I love it. I love getting to teach you guys. Sherry has not started. Betty loves the classes. Thank you. Anita's trying. Denise did some in high school. Hey, there's nothing wrong with that. I took like a 12-year break from painting. Tammy is new to painting. Roxanne said she is— I lost your comment. She paints, but she has to look at objects. How do you expand? Well, that's what I teach inside my membership. I go in-depth and my students get 3 new paintings with me per month. And through each painting, I'm teaching them something different that they can take those elements that I'm teaching them inside each separate painting and start learning how to put them together and build their own compositions from that. Carol has painted in college, loved it. Want to get back to it. I understand. So I have been an artist my whole life. My mom was an artist. My grandpa was an artist. I paint. I was, uh, you know, in high school that was all I did. I painted and, uh, did all things art. And then I was an art major in college, did not get my degree the first time because my husband graduated and we had to move to Dallas and I had to get a job. Um, so I kind of put everything on hold. And I did not paint for almost 12 years. I worked, I was a manager while I was down there, and then we moved to Springfield and I became a mom and I had 3 beautiful girls. And after I had them, I just felt like this need— there was something missing because I hadn't painted, I hadn't done anything creative in all of those years, and I just kind of felt like, oh void would be the best way I can describe it. And I picked up a paintbrush again and painted my first painting, and I loved it, and it just all came flooding back to me. And I haven't stopped painting since then. And now here I am, no idea what God had in store for me. I went back to finish my degree in graphic design because I thought that was the only way I could do something creative with my life and get paid for it and bring money to my family. And while I was in finishing my degree in graphic design at MSU, I started doing paint nights kind of by accident. For those of you that don't know my story, my oldest daughter Kylie was turning 10 and she wanted to do a paint party for her birthday. I was like, that's awesome, I can do that. So Cory built me 10 of these easels, the same easel that you see sitting here. He He built me 10 of these and I taught 10 10-year-olds how to paint and, you know, sketched the design on there for them and we did it and I thought that was the end of it. I mean, I was that mom who did, you know, I went all out for the birthday party, so to me it was just another birthday party. Then the moms came and they were like, "That's so cool. You should do that for us." I was like, "Really?" They were like, "Yeah, we want to do a paint night." I was like, "Well, I can try. I don't know if I can teach or not." So I had 10 of my girlfriends over and they were my guinea pigs and I tried to teach them how to paint and it worked. And lo and behold, they had, you know, 10 awesome— we did a Christmas tree, which I'm actually going to show you guys later this week, my original Christmas tree that started the entire business. But so I taught them how to paint that and it worked and I was like, okay. If I can teach my best friends how to paint, then I can teach anybody how to paint. And so I started my business just thinking it was going to be a couple times a month to make a little extra money, and I became so busy and so popular so fast that I had to choose between finishing my degree in graphic design and putting all my eggs in one basket and following this dream of getting to be a painter and an artist. And Corey was not on board with me at the beginning and was like, "I'm not gonna let you quit college again," which I didn't want to. But you guys, I was— graphic design took about 60 hours a week in itself, the amount of work I had to do. Then I was doing 2 to 3 paint nights a week. And I had 3 kids at home and a husband. So I wasn't showing up in any area all the way. I was running on fumes. I was stressed to the max, and I just cried and was like, I can't do this anymore. And I asked him to trust me and trust my gut, and he prayed about it and came back a few days later and he said, if that's if that's really what you think is the right thing to do, then, then I'll support you and I want you to do it. And after all that work, all those hours, all those years I put into my graphic design degree, I quit because I couldn't do both. And I committed to my painting business full-time. And I started— for those of you guys that don't know, I was the first person in Springfield, Missouri to kind of have the concept of taking paint nights to restaurants. And so when I did that, it was, it was new and it was big and it grew super fast. And I was selling out of every class that I did for 2 and a half years straight. And that was amazing. And I mean, it took my business to where I never ever thought it could. And then about 2 years ago, I was getting burnt out on that because my kids were growing up. It was one thing when they were little, but you know, then I started missing games and I started missing their activities because I was always gone at paint nights. And that is when I found Jennifer Allwood and discovered building my business online. And that's what brings me here today. So I wouldn't plan on sharing that story with you guys, but there it is. All of that to tell you, uh, just, Trust your gut, and if this is something that you think you want to do, do it. Um, it may just be just for you, for art therapy. It may be just to, you know, have some time by yourself. Maybe it's because you need a community of women to bond with and talk to and share your art with. Whatever it is, if you feel that like drive and that desire to create, then trust it. You know, God is the original creator, and he created us in his image, and I believe that he put creativity in every single one of us because he was the creator. So we shouldn't ignore that, and we should embrace it. And sometimes we just need someone to help us pull out that creativity. So that is my goal, and that is what I love doing, and that's why I'm here today. Painting with you guys today. So sorry to go on that tangent. We're letting the paint dry, but I'm gonna catch up on your comments and kind of see where you're at too. So Carol, your comment of just not painting since college reminded me of that. Bonnie says she hasn't painted. Oh, Bonnie, you're so wrong. She said, she said, I can't draw, so I don't think I have the talent to do it. Everyone has the talent to do it. And I break everything down into very tiny little steps that makes it all easy for you to do. Cheryl said, "I'm not good at the, the whirls." Just takes practice. Just keep on working on it. That's right. Practice makes perfect. Linda said she began in February following me. She loves her time painting. It's fulfilling and fun going to an empty canvas to an actual drawing. Barbara said it's been a long time. I haven't yet but excited. Awesome, I'm glad to have you here. Awesome, Donna said she's been painting for a while but she wants to learn more. Now is the time. I've got all kinds of stuff out there for you guys to take advantage of right now. Thank you, Miss Janice. Anita, there you can join the waitlist. You'll get a message from me with links and you can join the waitlist for that. But this Sunday night, you guys all mark your calendars, Sunday night, 7:30 PM Central Standard Time, I'm going to go live and teach Autumn Road live on my Facebook page, just like I'm doing right now. Autumn Road is my most popular fall painting ever, and that's when we open the doors to the membership. So that's what— this is backwards, but 5 days until we open. Sunday night, 7:30 p.m., doors open and you can join the membership. Cheryl says she started painting after her battle with cancer. I can understand. It's definitely, definitely therapeutic. Thank you, Betty. Love you, Tish. Phyllis said, what brushes am I using right now? I'm just— this is a big, like, 1-inch flat wash brush, and then I've got a couple rounds here. So this is a— hold on, let me check, make sure I'm not telling you wrong. This is a 1. Round, and then these are two of my liner brushes that are in a set in my Amazon store. Actually, both of these are in my Amazon store, but this is a detail brush set. I think there's like 10 of them in a set, and I'll post the links to that as well. Thank you, Roxanne. Betty, me too. She said she loves losing herself in painting. Kemberlyn said— oh, that's awesome, she started creating again. Thank you, Robbie, very much. Oh, Robbie, make sure you post that. She did my free dandelion painting, which you get when you join the waitlist, by the way. So we have a free Facebook group you can post that work in as well. Hey, Nancy. Kathleen, when is it? The class is Sunday night at 7:30 PM Central Standard Time here on my Facebook page, and it is free. So there's no cost for that class on Sunday night. And during that is when we'll talk all about, you know, the details of the Inner Tribe, what all you get. But you guys feel free to ask me questions now and I can answer them as well. So I've let this dry a little bit. Okay, but I want you to notice, see how that looks, and there's a lot of those brushstrokes on there that are kind of like still transparent, still see-through. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the paint or how you're doing it. That's just blue. Okay, so there's some colors that are really, really transparent, and blue is one of them. So you almost always need a second coat. So what I'm doing now, I've let this dry enough that it's dry in most areas. You can tell that by whether it's shiny or wet. But where it's dry, I can start putting on more paint again, and you'll see that cover a lot better. So this is important too. When you are painting and you're working with acrylic paint, It's tempting to look at this while it's all wet and just keep loading up paint and keep loading up paint and putting it on there. But what happens is it gets thick and gloppy. It's not going to give you any more coverage. It's basically just going to load up on your canvas and you're just going to keep moving the paint around. So you don't want to keep loading wet on wet unless you're blending something. If you're blending colors, then yes, but if you're trying to get coverage then you want it to dry first and then put your second coat on. So I keep a blow dryer at my station, and if I'm impatient and I don't want to wait for it to dry, then I can blow dry it and move on to my next step faster. But the other good thing about it is you can take breaks away from your painting and go do something, let it dry, and then come back to it. And that's another awesome thing about the way my membership works and all the paintings that I teach in there. They're all recorded, and then you can go back to them whenever you want to, and you can pause them and stop them and rewind them, and you don't have to catch them live. You don't have to be there at a certain time. You have access to them whenever it works with your schedule. So can you guys see how much I'm and that's still a little shiny. Can you see how that looks? I'm gonna prop this up here, try not to get the wet paint, so you can see that really quick. So we're gonna let that dry just a little bit more, and then we're gonna start putting our design on there. Thank you, Vicki. Vicki and Jesse are both members. Naomi, if you get emails from me, then you are most likely on the waitlist, and so emails will go out on Sunday as a reminder with the link to sign up as well. Betty, I do use metallics. I love metallic paint. You'll find that out about me. I love gold. This is my favorite gold paint pen. This is DecoArt Premium. You can get these at Walmart, and I have the link in my Amazon store for it. And then I love all metallic paint. FolkArt has some really good ones. I've got this one upside down because it's running out, but it's just Pure Gold from FolkArt. And you can use— what I'm using is just basic craft paint, so you can use DecoArt, Apple Barrel from Walmart, Craft Smart from Michaels. I use all different brands. DecoArt covers the best, in my opinion, out of any of them. Thank you, Kim. I really need something to prop this up on. Give me just a second. I'm gonna go get another easel, and I'm gonna try to prop this up on that so I can read your comments a little bit easier. And I'm glad I took a break because I just went over— I'm in my studio and I forgot I took my Birkenstocks off while I was teaching my class earlier today and left them on the floor. And I have a new dog that loves to chew things. She's already chewed them apart one time and we had to have them fixed. So I can't leave shoes on the ground anymore, and I totally did, and if I would have left the room, they would probably be destroyed again. So glad I had to go get this easel. Yes, Cyan, I'm not sure if I'm saying your name right. Cyan, Cyan, yes, all you have to do, if you go to events on my Facebook page, you can add yourself to that and and it will remind you. But the event itself is free and it's just on my page, just like you're watching me right now. You'll just jump back on my page Sunday night and at 7:30 Central Standard Time, I'll be on there teaching the painting. If you guys want the list for that, hang on, let me see if I have— I don't know if I have that link. Ready. Okay, let me tell you, this will be the easiest thing to do. When you hop off here with me and you go to the Social Easel page, at the top, my photo, the COVID photo of my Facebook page, I'm holding the painting that I'm gonna teach Sunday night. If you click on that, there is a link and it sends you— sign up and it will send you an email with all the colors that I'm using so you guys can be prepared. It tells you what brushes to use, what colors to use, and what size canvas, and that way you'll have all the information. You'll get a reminder on Sunday so that you don't miss the class. All right, I'm just gonna air this out just a little. We don't have to wait for it to completely dry. I just want it a little bit drier. So let me know if you guys have any other questions for me, and it can be about painting, it can be about the membership, it can be about whatever you want. But this— I have a question for you guys, and I sent this out in my email today too. I want you to tell me what painting does for you. So when you're painting, how do you feel? Or what makes you want to paint? That might be a better question. I'm going around my edges where I touched my canvas a little bit. All right, so the first thing we are gonna do to get our peacock feather drawn on here is do our line across here because we want a base to start adding all of our little twirlies off of. So you can do this a couple different ways. Since my paint is still wet, I'm actually just going to use a round brush. I'm not even going to put any paint on it, and I'm just going to kind of outline with my round brush. Because the paint's still wet, I'll be able to see that outline, and then I can come back over top of it in one of the greens that I choose. I think I forgot one of the greens I wanted to use. I may have to hop over there and grab it. I always forget— this was 6 years ago, so I always forget what colors. I thought I grabbed them all, but I see— I think I added like a light Sea Breeze on here too. So I'll try to— I'm gonna try to scoot this over so you can still see the original and then kind of see what I'm doing. Carol, that's when you, when you click that link that I was telling you about, go to my cover page when I am done on this live, and when you sign up for that, you will get an email with the full color list. Painting soothes the soul. I think so too. Jesse says it's a great escape. She can't think about more than one thing at a time, so if she's in a bad mood, it's a good time to paint. I agree, it definitely takes your mind off things. Kemberlyn says her job is dealing with the IRS. That is no fun. So I paint and it takes away the tension and stress. Yes, for sure. Okay, so I know I want this to kind of go across here. So I'm gonna turn my canvas for myself a little bit, and it's not a straight line, so I'm gonna curve it slightly. And I don't want to go all the way up. I'm gonna look at this while I'm doing it because it's been a while. So I come off the corner of my page a little bit, so I'm coming up a little bit here, and then I'm just gonna kind of curve across. And then I know I want to leave enough room, and I'm going to show you guys this in just a second. And again, this doesn't have to be anything exact or perfect. Can you see that outline a little bit? I'm gonna grab some of this Caribbean here. I think so too, Kim. Total peace and relaxation. Yeah, that's good. It does. Carrie said it makes her feel accomplished, and I think that's such an important thing because sometimes we, you know, we may not have those things in our life that we get that feeling from, and painting can be one of those. When you get done, especially if it's something you don't think you can do and then you're able to do it, that sense of accomplishment feels so good. So I'm going to turn this around and kind of show you guys And you can always go back and touch things up. So I always tell my class that if you get something on there that you're not happy with, don't freak out about it. Don't try to fix it while it's wet. Just let it dry and you can go back and fix it. So I know I want to fill in this part with the lime green, so I'm going to go ahead and do that. And I'm just using my round number 1. You could use a little bit bigger one if you wanted to while you were filling it in. So mine is— I'm going to show you guys. I'm just going to hold it upside down, but see how it's mixing with my blue a little bit because I didn't let it dry? That's fine. I'm not going to worry about it right now. I know I'm going to come back over this and put a second coat on, but I at least have that part of my peacock feather there and know that that's where I want it. So I've kind of got my my placement down. So obviously, you know, doing a little bit smaller version, so I just kind of eyeball. This is a little bit closer to the top than I did in my original, so I'll just have to be shorter with my curly Q's up there. Hello Becky and Patricia. I'm gonna grab my blow dryer real quick, see if I can pull it over here. We'll give this a quick little blow dry so I can move a little faster. So if you're just joining and you're having fun watching and kind of seeing what I'm doing, I'm going to finish this peacock feather. Feel free to pass it along to your friends. Let them know what we're painting. Maybe you know someone who needs a little stress reliever today. So blow dryers are super handy to have at your paint station. So now that's almost completely dry. You can see a little bit of shininess there. —but it's a lot, lot drier than what it was. So I'm gonna finish getting my colors on here. I've got some lime green, like a turquoise color. Thank you, Nancy. I'm gonna get— oh, I have one already open. This is one of my absolute favorite colors. This is Bluegrass Green by DecoArt. I love this color. I don't know how many paintings I've used it in, but a lot. And it's also the color of my big easel that I use. I had to paint the entire easel that color. Then I've got like a fuchsia, kind of like a hot pink color. And I'm getting— this is a new color. I didn't use this in my original. It's called Purple Pizzazz, but I think I'm gonna try it out and see if I like it. Hey, hey, Miss Cindy. Do any of you guys know Miss Cindy? If you know Art Shattered, if you've ever heard of that, Miss Cindy owns Art Shattered, and she teaches you how to do glass art, and she's trying to teach me. I haven't done it yet. It's on my list of things. Cindy's gonna help me. So be sure to jump over to her page if you have not checked her out yet, because her work is amazing and she can teach you how to do it. She's actually a guest inside of my tribe as well. Yes, Robbie, all the, all the videos, you can just come back to them whenever you want if you can't finish watching now, and they will be under my videos tab. I know, Cindy. So I have this project that I asked for Cindy's help on. I got all these like black iridescent shells from when we were at the beach, and like on one side they're like shiny and graphite kind of color, and on the other side it's like rainbow, all iridescent. So the girls and I collected them all over the beach, and I want to make like the shape of a mermaid tail with all of those shells that I did and use resin to do it, but I've been scared. So Cindy's gonna help me get that project done. She sent me a little kit. Now I just have to have time to do it. Hey, Diane! So I am— I have a filbert brush here I'm using to just fill in that green on my peacock feather. Filbert brushes are great when you're working with curves, and I like them better than rounds for this when you're filling in because you don't have those little lines that round brushes can create. See how much more that's filled in there? So now we're gonna bounce back, trying to decide if I want to use my 1 or my 2. I'm gonna start with 1, but I might want to move to a little bit bigger round brush depending on how big my swirls are. Are. So I'm going to go back in the middle again, overlap my blue, and then from here I'm just going to start coming out and doing these swirls. I'm going around this little guy here. And I like to start with one color and then I just kind of keep moving. And this is really pretty. I'm going to hold that up. Can you see how that turquoise is mixing with a little bit of that lime green up there too? So when I'm doing this, I'm not pressing down super hard. Quick little light movements. And when I'm getting to the end, I'm kind of coming up, like away from the canvas, and when you do that, it naturally tapers off your line so you don't end up with that really blunt end. So that may be something that you struggle with sometimes. It kind of takes getting used to doing that movement. Like a flicking motion with your hand so that it tapers off for you. I think I may overlap this. I'll come back and add another curve on there. So I'm just going to keep going Some kind of just curve out, some have curly Q's on them. You can just change it up as you go, decide how full you want yours. I do think they look pretty the fuller they are. And when you get out on these curves on the outer side, if you need to overlap that again, that's fine. If your paint ran out before you got there, just come back and fill that in again. When you are coming off this line that we're using as our base, they should be coming in— I want you to think of like making the letter V, so they're not coming straight out from that line. They all look like the letter V. Does that make sense? And then they kind of curve out and flourish. That is— Diane asked what color the green part is, and that is Lime Tree by Apple Barrel. So if you struggle with swirls, I recommend getting a mixed media pad and practicing and practicing and practicing. You're not gonna get better at something until you practice it. See how I move my entire arm when I'm doing that though? So if you don't move your arm, it ends up looking more of like an oval shape. And the more you do this, honestly, the more you do this, the more use you get to it and the easier it is for you to do these. I'm gonna go— I got a little dried paint here. I'm gonna go a little bit thicker towards the top, start adding some around here. Scoot that over a little bit so you guys can see that better. So this is what it looks like with just one color so far, and now I'm gonna start adding in some of the other colors. The background is a navy and a peacock blue. Cindy, you said truth and I've already forgot what I said. What were we talking about? Okay, now I'm using my Bluegrass Green. I'm going to start adding that in, and I kind of want this to be a little bit of a surprise. You guys can see the color a little bit, but this pops so much, so I want to get a couple of the brush strokes down with this before I show you. And all of your lines don't have to match up. You can have curls overlap and lines overlap. It's like this Bluegrass Green on this color background almost glows. Susan, Heidi's event, is that what you're talking about? I can't remember what Heidi's having me do. I don't think I'm actually teaching a painting. I think I'm talking more about the business side of it to help you guys get your classes booked and have awesome engagement. I honestly, if Heidi was on here, she'd probably tell me what I was doing. I don't remember. All right. Look how pretty this is with that green. That's the Bluegrass Green on there, so you can see how it's starting to come together here. What do you guys think so far? So just light, fairly quick movements. Kind of like a flicking motion. Let's have some kind of come up this way, and then inside the peacock feather here, we're going to kind of have this like oval shape towards the bottom. That's in the Bluegrass Green as well. Thank you, thank you. I just love this one. These colors are so fun. I'm just kind of straightening out that shape a little bit so I can get it more of how I want it. All right, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna turn and look at this real quick and kind of decide where I want to add some other colors. So I think I did some lime green, but I kind of did it more as an accent. And it's really pretty when we add that, that pink in there too. It starts to make it pop. So we've got No, I'm gonna let that dry a little bit. Let's add some pink in. Let's add a little bit of contrast in here. Now, I definitely do not have as much of the hot pink as I do the other colors. It's more of an accent than one of the main ones, but you can make your peacock feather whatever you want. I keep dipping in the purple instead of the pink. Happy accidents. We'll just let it go. I may like it even more. So I'm going to flip this around in just a second and kind of show you how you can accent some of the other shapes that you've already got going. It's kind of like electric looking in it. All right, let's see if Facebook will let us do this. We're gonna try. How many of you would like to go into a drawing? To maybe get this original that I'm doing right now. I have to be really careful with my wording. I may have already messed it up, but we'll see. If you want to let your friends know about this video, pass it along, and after you do, just tell me that you sprinkled the love. Tell me that you sprinkled it out to your friends. You can just put sprinkled and I'll know what you meant. And let me know once you've done that, and I'm going to pick someone to get my original piece of art. So we'll let this run until Sunday. Let's do that. I'll announce the winner Sunday night at 7:30 during my live paint class doing Autumn Road. So if you want to pass along that love of art and creativity, let me know you did in the comments below. I'm gonna pick one of you to get some happy mail, and someone's gonna get the original. So I'm just kind of going back and looking at it and deciding where I want to add these colors. I'm gonna put in a little bit of this purple. I want to see what that looks like. Ooh, that's pretty. So right now I'm starting on my curves on the outside instead of on the inside, so I get more of that accent color there. Oh, that looks pretty when the pink and the purple blend together. Honestly, no matter how these touch each other, they all look pretty when they start blending. That's looking pretty cool so far. Thank you, guys. Make sure I'm not missing any questions here. Debbie, no, there is no supply list for this project. I'm just kind of telling you guys as I go. If you missed the beginning, you can go back. I kind of went over some of the colors. All right, so I'm gonna come in the middle of my peacock feather here and make another little shape inside. Kind of like the eye of the, the feather here. I'm gonna let that dry before I add anything else. Priscilla, what do you mean everything to start what? If you are just wanting to know like basic art supplies, you'll get a message from me that has a link to my Amazon store that has all my favorite supplies to it. You can start whenever you want. So if you've gotten like my 4-part video series, all of that is great Great place. That's what I recommend honestly for everyone to start with because I go over basic brushstrokes with you, all that good stuff. That's just a free video series that I am sending out to your email. So let me see if I can post that link in the comments really quick for you guys. Um, so you can get signed up for that. So the links that I'm going to post, if I can find my Evernote app, are gonna give you my supply list. It's gonna give you the link to sign up for my video series. If you missed that, you'll get that. And then if you want to learn more from me and possibly join my painting membership, that opens on Sunday night. Okay, so that opens Sunday night. Right now, we're just— you can just watch my videos and my YouTube videos and the video series, all that good stuff. And just learn to paint from there. All right, let me make sure this is everything I need. Okay, I have just posted those links for you. So if you want more information about the membership and like learning to actually teach full paintings with me step by step, that's what my painting membership is for. You'll get that information as well. And then yeah, any information you want about like what brushes you need, what you need to start, all of that's on my Getting Started Supply List. If you guys are not following me over on YouTube, you can do that as well, and you can kind of go back through, and there is one where I talk all about supplies. So that's a YouTube video that you can go and check out as well. Yeah, Priscilla, I am teaching you to paint from home. So yeah, you get all your supplies, everything that you want, and then once you have your paints and your brushes and just a few other things, then you're ready to go. You don't need a ton to get started, and you don't need expensive canvases. You can just get— like, I recommend getting the value pack from Hobby Lobby or Michaels is what I recommend. I'm gonna grab a different paint really quick. Hang on. I need a little bit lighter color in here. So we're almost done. I'm gonna add some accent marks of this lighter. It's called Sea Breeze, and I'm gonna go in— this is one of my liner brushes— just add these little accent marks. And you can get just basic craft paints. You don't need, you know, fancy artist acrylic, artist grade paint. These are just craft paints you can get at Walmart or Michaels, wherever you get your art supplies or craft supplies, I should say. You see how that kind of brings out the shapes a little bit? That's looking pretty. Add a little bit more inside our feather here. Maybe a little purple up here would be pretty. What do you guys think so far? Fun? Carrie said she's gonna try this with her granddaughters. They'll love it. So much fun. 2 of the 3 of my girls love to paint. Kylie, my oldest, not so much, but she's creative in a different way. She is amazing at photography and just doesn't realize that that's just as much art as what I'm doing. It's just a different medium. Alright, so I'm gonna stop with my colors for right now. Put this brush in my water. Make sure you always put your brushes in your water. Don't leave them out to dry. Your paint will dry on them. Thank you, Miss Betty. So I had some leftover black from my painting earlier today, so I'm just going to load a little bit of this up. And this is with one of my liner brushes. This is a detail brush that's in my Amazon store, and I'm just going to go over this line here in the middle. Sorry, I got a hair in my eye. To make that stand out a little bit more. And I'm just kind of— can you guys see how I'm just kind of dragging that? And a lot of it is just learning the pressure that you're putting down. You do not want to put a ton of pressure down when you're making skinny little lines. So I'm just lightly dragging that across my canvas. Okay, like that. And then I don't want these to be super solid black outlines. I just want them to kind of accent here and there. I don't want the black to overpower. Oops, that's a little too thick. My paint dried a little from this morning. And then The very last color we will add is the gold. You guys still kind of see what I'm doing here? See how that's starting to stand out a little with the black on top? I might put— I'm actually going to get a little bit of black and my navy just to make it a little darker and fill in this inner part. Of the eye on the feather. All right, so the last thing we are going to do is add the gold on. Now I did bring my gold paint pen because I wasn't sure if I wanted to do paint pen or paint, but I think I want to do paint. It has a little bit different finish, and because my paint is still wet on here, you don't want to drag a paint pen through wet paint. I'm just gonna get a little dot of that. Still got too much. You do not need very much paint either to do these projects. Look at my palette. It's a used one, so there's some old paint on there too, but I got about a quarter-size amount of each one and it was still too much. So if you're doing this with some friends, you guys can probably share a palette. And another little note for you: don't hold your palettes while you're painting, because when we hold them, we do this, and then all our colors start running together. So when I teach my classes at paint nights, I have them sit them at their station and just rotate to get the color that they need so all their colors don't run together. All right, so I've got my pure metallic gold here. See, these little liner brushes really help you get those skinny, dainty little lines that people love. You got to get the right brush. If you're struggling with it with the brushes you have, chances are you need this amazing detail brush set. You can ask my girls in my, in my tribe. I love this brush set and I use it in so many of our paintings. Now I can easily get carried away with my gold. I love gold paint. I'm adding in just a little bit more lime green. Oh, that's what I didn't add. I forgot I had lime green out here. On some of my feathers. See, I could just keep going. Now I kind of want to add some more of my Bluegrass Green back in. I do think I want to do a little bit more. I'm going to do a little bit more of my Bluegrass Green, maybe make a little bit thicker. Just a few lines, just to give a little more body to this. Let's have another one come up here. I'm going to go back to a little bit of my lime green with that bluegrass green that I just put in, and if you do it quick enough and they blend a little bit, they look even prettier. So to get them to blend, you want both colors wet at the same time. All right, what do you guys think? I think I'm done. I hope you guys enjoyed this one. It was fun to paint this afternoon. Okay, let your friends know. Someone might get the original, or someone will. It might be you. And mark your calendars for Sunday night, 7:30 PM Central Standard Time on my Facebook page, Just Like This. We are gonna paint Autumn Road, one of my favorite and most popular fall paintings. I'll grab it for you guys really quick. Hang on. Yeah, I think it needed that Bluegrass Green too. There's a lot more colors in the one I did today, but I'm digging it. All right, here is what we're gonna do on Sunday night. Do you guys like this one? This is Autumn Road. and I bet I have taught this class, oh, I don't know, probably about 16 times. So I can probably teach this in my sleep, but we're gonna teach it, or you're gonna learn it, I'm gonna teach it Sunday night, 7:30 PM on the page. So if you love this and you want to learn how to paint it, make sure I'm gonna post the comment, or I mean, I'm gonna post the link in the comments after I get off here. I don't have it on my iPad. But I'm going to post the link for you to sign up and get the color list for this and what brushes I use so you're set and ready to go Sunday night when I go live. Okay, and then I will be answering all your questions about my membership that night and we will open doors. So I know some of you have been anxiously awaiting to join the Tribe. I only open it a few times a year and it opens Sunday night at 7:30. So mark your calendars, ladies. Come back and join me. I am gonna go live every day this week and do a different project with you. So what do you guys want to paint next? I've got two projects I want to work on. I'm gonna do a buffalo plaid canvas with a pumpkin, and I'm also going to do my whimsical Christmas tree that I was telling you about if you were back with me at the beginning of the video. That was my very first painting that I taught my girlfriends. We're gonna do a mini version that you can turn into a Christmas ornament. So let me know. Leave me some notes in the comments. Let me know which one you want to paint first. And what's today? Tuesday? So we've got Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I'm gonna go live each day— Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. And I can't promise you exact times yet because I do not know, but If you subscribe to my Messenger, you will get notified before I go live. Okey-dokey. Jesse said the cross. I was thinking about the cross, Jesse. I might do a mini version of that. We'll see. The tree. So far the tree. The tree is the winner. Well, I can give you a little hint. You'll probably end up getting both. Either way. So we'll see how, we'll see how the days work out. But it was fun painting with you guys today, and I'll be back on tomorrow. Bye!